Many people across the league are wondering if Kristaps Porzingis will stay in Boston after the offseason.
After the Celtics’ first round exit, Pozingis and Jrue Holiday have become the most likely candidates for a deal this summer, as C needs to earn about $20 million in salary under the second apron of the NBA’s luxury tax in the offseason.
Porzingis is about to enter the final year of his contract with a salary cap of $30.7 million.
The idea of ​​a large number of trade proposals has been abandoned.
A discussion by insiders Chris Mannix and Kevin O'Connor centered on the proposal of Masslive.com's Brian Robb, the Celtics will send Porzingis to the blazinger to Robert Williams and Matisse Thybulle.
“If Porzingis can play, if he shakes the disease, then he brings more value than Robert Williams,” Mannicks said. “You want a guy – on a smaller contract – to show that he can play with Jayson Tatum, to show that he can play with Jaylen Brown. If you can keep him in a better deal, it's probably a better long-term for the Celtics.”
Porzingis has struggled with many illnesses and injuries this season, so 25 is missing. At some point during the playoffs, he breathed firmly and had to leave the court.
But O'Connor believes that it should be a benefit to him that Williams/Timble's return is not enough to get him out.
“You have to see what he looks like with Latvia (in the Eurobasket 2025 Championship) and it might bring him into the season because he is still the main X-factor,” O'Connor said. “It still demonstrates his ability to play this offense, and he brings the level of this team that loves shooting 3s.
“Porzingis is a guy I'm willing to keep in mind considering his worth so low right now. If you can only go back to Robert Wllliams, I love him, but someone who is easily injured, but Thybulle doesn't show a lot, they can't shoot at all, and there aren't multiple teams, that's not a good reward, it's a good reward for Kristaps Porzingis porzingis porzingis.”
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